Daguerreotype portrait of an older man in an oval vignette – Antique Photo Print
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Step back in time with Daguerreotype portrait of an older man in an oval vignette, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Daguerreotype portrait of an older man in an oval vignette
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Few details survive about the sitter of this 1851 daguerreotype, but the oval vignette itself tells a good deal about how portraits were made at the time. Photographers of the early 1850s often masked the edges of a plate so the face and shoulders emerged softly from a dark ground, a framing choice that drew the eye to the features and away from the studio around them. Daguerreotypes like this one were unique positives on silvered copper, so each survives as a single object, and its mirror-like surface reflects the viewer when it is tilted. The older man's careful pose and dress reflect the formal conventions of portraiture in that decade, when a sitting was a considered and costly event.
| Created / published | 1851 |
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| Original scan | 3,266 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 580_Daniel_Webster_headands_1851 |
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